Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Proverbs 13:21

Context
NETBible

Calamity 1  pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous. 2 

XREF

Ge 4:7; Nu 32:23; Ps 32:10; Ps 140:11; Isa 3:10,11; Ac 28:4; Ro 2:7-10

NET © Notes

tn Heb “evil.” The term רָעָה (raah, “evil”) here functions in a metonymical sense meaning “calamity.” “Good” is the general idea of good fortune or prosperity; the opposite, “evil,” is likewise “misfortune” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV) or calamity.

sn This statement deals with recompense in absolute terms. It is this principle, without allowing for any of the exceptions that Proverbs itself acknowledges, that Job’s friends applied (incorrectly) to his suffering.



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